The Doctors Book Club is currently reviewing Abraham Verghese's book Cutting for Stone. Join us over the coming days as we discuss the book and check back soon to hear one of our club member's thoughts.

Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a critically acclaimed, best-selling author and a physician with an international reputation for his focus on healing in an era [...]

Hematologist, oncologist and author Siddhartha Mukherjee was born in New Delhi, India in 1970. In 1989. As a biology major at Stanford University, he worked in Nobel Laureate Paul Berg's laboratory, defining cellular genes that change the behaviours of cancer cells. He completed his B.S. degree in 1993. From there, Mukherjee attended the University of Oxford where he [...]

The Doctors Book Club is currently reviewing Siddhartha Mukherjee's book The Gene: An Intimate History. Join us over the coming months as we read and check back soon to hear one of our club member's thoughts.

This bio is taken directly from Atul's Website Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. [...]

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DoctorsBookClub is a book club for doctors – an out-of- hospital hobby. Designed primarily for physicians but welcome to all, DoctorsBookClub is an online, blog and social-media based book club for doctors who love to read.